Alaska is a state located at the northwest extremity of the North American continent. It borders Canadian provinces British Columbia and Yukon, as well as Russia (maritime border). It is also bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.

Alaska is the largest state by area, but also the least densely populated and the 3rd least populous state, with around 740,000 residents. The capital of this state is Juneau, while the largest city is Anchorage, with a population close to 300,000.

Alaska was a part of the Russian Empire until the United States purchased it in 1867. It officially became a state very late, in 1959. The economy of Alaska heavily relies on fishing, natural gas and oil industry, as well as tourism.

In Alaska, the violent crime rate in the period from 2016 to 2017 went up by as much as 2.8%, which is a 3.0% increase per 100,000 people.

Ranking Criteria

Elite Personal Finance extracted data from the FBI crime statistics in the United States in 2017. We took violent crime as the main criteria. To get our score, we used this formula:

Crime Score = ( Total Number of Violent Crimes / Population ) * 1,000

This way, cities that are the safest got the lowest score and those that are more vulnerable to crime got higher scores.

The cities that did not report crimes to the FBI were not included in the list, as well as cities with a population under 1,000.

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